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Minds Make Societies

How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

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Minds Make Societies

By: Pascal Boyer
Narrated by: Tom Parks
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A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies

“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature.” Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.

Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles. In fascinating, thought-provoking passages, he explores questions such as: Why is there conflict between groups? Why do people believe low-value information such as rumors? Why are there religions? What is social justice? What explains morality? Boyer provides a new picture of cultural transmission that draws on the pragmatics of human communication, the constructive nature of memory in human brains, and human motivation for group formation and cooperation.

©2018 Pascal Boyer. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Anthropology Biological Sciences Evolution Evolution & Genetics Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Science Social Psychology & Interactions Social Sciences Capitalism Social justice Socialism Morality Africa Social Cognition
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Social sciences and behavioural sciences are growingly integrated. This book is likely the best one at the moment discussing the insights from this merging of perspectives.

A must listen for anyone interested in social and behavioural sciences

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